Necktie-support



W. R. MORSON AND E. B. JARVIS.

NECKTIE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED APR-19,1917.

1 ,391,339. PatentedSept. 20, 1921..

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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER R. MORSON AND EDGAR BEAUMONT JARVIS, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

To all whom it may concern Beitknown ,thatwe, WALTER R. MORSON and EDGARBEAUMONT JARVIS, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, Provinceof Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inNecktie-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices on which a tie can be made up and bymeans of which it can be secured in place at the opening of a turn-downcollar without any part of the tie being carried around the collar, andour object is to devise a form of the simplest possible construction,and therefore cheap, and one which requires only one point of connectionwith the clothing and is therefore easily attached and detached, andwhich exposes no metal to view when the tie is in place.

We attain our object by means of the constructions hereinafter describedand illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is afront elevation of a support constructed in accordance with ourinvention;

Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 a plan View with the parts separated; and

Fig. 4 a front elevation showing a slight modification.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding partsin the different figures.

Referring particularly to Figs l, 2 and 3, 1 is an attaching member towhich is connected a transverse loop member 2 forming a tie holder. Inthese figures of the drawings the attaching memberis formed from sheetmetal and the loop member of wire, the ends of the wire being at themiddle of the lower and rearward side.

On the attaching member is formed a tongue 3bent over to embrace theends of the wire of the loop, the whole being secured by brazing orsoldering. In the attaching member is formed an oblong transverse slot4.

5 is a collar button member provided with a flattened shank ofapproximately the same size and form in cross section as the slotaforesaid. The shank is provided with means for releasably retaining theattaching member on the shank. We show a preferred arrangement in whichtwo loops 7 Specification of Ietters Patent. 7 Patented Sept 20, 1921,Application filed April 19,1917. Serial No. 163,274..

and 8 are employed of no greater thickness than the shank by havingalined pivots 9 formed at their ends, which pivots fit into bearings 10formed at the outer end of the shank, which bearings also are of nogreater thickness than the shank. The ends of the bearings are providedwith the notches 11 into which the loop members spring when either inthe extended form shown in Fig. 3 or in the bent up form shown in Fig.2.

From this arrangement it follows that the loops and bearings in thecollar button member pass easily through the slot 4:. The shank memberbeing of substantially the same form and dimensions as the slot, theattaching member can neither turn nor move sidewise on the shank, and asthe shank when in use will pass through horizontal elongated buttonholes formed in the icollar band when the form is in place on thecollar, it will be held firmly in fixed relationship to the collar.

When the device is used a tie will be suitably mounted around theforward upper part of the loop, th collar button member passed throughthe shirt band and collar band, the attaching member slipped into placon the shank and the loops 7 and 8 turned up. The tie will then besecurely held in proper position at the front of the collar.

The loop will be made of sufficient length to pass under the turn-downportion of the collar for use with which it is designed.

It will be noted on reference to the side elevation that the outer partof the loop is raised above the rearward part, so that the sides oftheloop lie in a plane at an obtuse angle to the plane of the front ofthe attaching member. This arrangement prevents any possibility of therear part of the loop at the upper end of the attaching mem ber beingseen.

A variation of the construction of the attaching member and loop isshown in Fig. 4. The attaching member is formed by bringing the ends ofthe loop 2 downwardly, one of them being bent to form a narrowhorizontal loop 11, which forms the slot 1. The neck 12 between theloops 2 and 11 is embraced by a metal clip 13, the joint in the wirecoming within the clip, which is preferably soldered in place to makethe joint solid.

What we claim as our invention is:

1. A tie support comprising an attaching member having an oblongtransverse slot formed therein and a transverse loop member having a tieholder secured to the attaching member, the support being adapted to fitover a collar button provided with a flattened shank of approximatelythe same size and form in cross section as the slot afore,

taching member, the sides of the loop'lying in a plane at an obtuseangle to the plane of the front of the attaching member, the 15 supportbeing adapted to fit over a collar button provided with a flattenedshank of approximately the sam size and form in p cross section as theslot aforesaid.

S7igned at Toronto, this 7th day of April 20 191 WALTER 'R. MORSON.BEAUMONT JARVIS.

